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[[File:51Z3RS06DBL__SL500_AA300__9949.jpg|frame|The Few. The Proud. The Totally Insane.]]
▲{{quote| '''Billy''': Jesus! Who the hell is shooting at us?<br />
'''Jack''': Over here, [[Everything Trying to Kill You|everybody shoots at us]]. }}
'''''Air America''''' is a film.
1969: After [[It Makes Sense in Context|buzzing a semi-driver]], radio eye-in-the-sky Billy Covington([[Robert Downey Jr]]) gets stripped of his pilot's license. No sooner does this happen then he gets a job offer from Air America, a covert airlift organization operating out of Laos. Once there, he finds the company full of lunatics, with perhaps the looniest being [[Crazy Awesome|Gene Ryack]] ([[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Mel Gibson]]), a self-proclaimed Buddhist who runs guns on the side. He also finds out the organization is secretly a drug-smuggling operation, run by [[Magnificent Bastard|Major Lemond]]([[Scrubs|Ken Jenkins]]) and General Soong([[The Pink Panther|Burt Kwouk]]).▼
▲1969: After [[It Makes Sense in Context|buzzing a semi-driver]], radio eye-in-the-sky Billy Covington([[Robert Downey, Jr.]]) gets stripped of his pilot's license. No sooner does this happen then he gets a job offer from Air America, a covert airlift organization operating out of Laos. Once there, he finds the company full of lunatics, with perhaps the looniest being [[Crazy Awesome|Gene Ryack]] ([[
Not to be confused with [[Air America Radio]].
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* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Not ''too'' bad, but some of the songs on the soundtrack actually came out ''after'' 1969.
* [[Agony of the Feet]]: Gene relates a story about getting his toe shot off through the cockpit floor. He now keeps it in a jar around his neck.
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* [[Death Seeker]]: Gene seems to have shades of this.
* [[Erudite Stoner]]: Babo.
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* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: See page quote.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: In one scene at a restaurant, two Laotian lounge singers are singing [[America (
* [[Gallows Humor]]: Given the circumstances...
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'''Gene''': Well, Rob, if he's not dead, he's very, very calm. }}
* [[Granola Girl]]: Corrine, the Peace Corps volunteer who's totally savvy to Lemond and Soong's activities.
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* [[Holiday in Cambodia]]: Pretty much the plot.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: At the beginning, a farmer shoots down a plane with a casual pot-shot.
* [[I Was Never Here]]: Gene tells Rob, "...if you and I weren't here, [[That Didn't Happen|this conversation never happened]], [[You Fail Logic Forever|so I can't remember what the fuck you didn't tell me]]."
* [[Minion With an F In Evil]]: Rob Diehl▼
** A trailer also had the narrating voice-over announce to viewers, "...and we didn't tell you this."
* [[Percussive Therapy]]: After getting his pilot's license pulled, Billy kicks the shit out of a coffee table.
* [[Retirony]]: Sort of; {{spoiler|Jack Neely}} was working on his retirement, but in the back of his mind knew he was gonna meet "the golden BB" sooner or later.
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* [[What Does She See in Him?]]: Corrine is apparently dating Rob.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Billy lampshades it at one point:
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'''Billy''': Will ya stop with the whole Buddha thing? I just don't believe a real Buddhist would be in the gun-running business[...]
'''Gene''': I didn't say I was a good Buddhist... }}
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]: A pretty funny one.
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[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]
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